ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,417, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Murrelektronik GmbH (Oppenweiler, Germany).

"Electrical circuit breaker for protecting energy distribution in an industrial plant" was invented by Heiko FeiBt (Schlierbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an electrical circuit breaker for protecting a power distribution system in an industrial plant (30) with electrical consumers (5) distributed in the plant. Electrical power is supplied to the electrical consumers (5) via a power-supplying line branch (7) of the power distribution system. For protecting the consumers, an electrical circuit breaker (20) is arrange...